EP 1565828 B1 20080702 - APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING BUFFER STATUS INFORMATION IN A SWITCHING FABRIC
Title (en)
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING BUFFER STATUS INFORMATION IN A SWITCHING FABRIC
Title (de)
EINRICHTUNG UND METHODE ZUR VERTEILUNG VON PUFFERZUSTANDSINFORMATION IN EINER SCHALTMATRIX
Title (fr)
DISPOSITIF ET PROCEDE DE DISTRIBUTION D'INFORMATIONS D'ETAT DE TAMPON DANS UNE MATRICE DE COMMUTATION
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 0335124 W 20031105
- US 30441202 A 20021126
Abstract (en)
[origin: US7349416B2] Network switching and/or routing devices can use switching fabrics that gather information about output port buffer status and distribute that information to various line cards for use in data frame congestion avoidance. The switching fabric can gather output buffer status information for all output ports and distribute that information to each line card in an efficient, in-band manner. Individual line cards can use the information to determine from which line card virtual output queue to dequeue data frames destined for the switching fabric. Line cards can also gather output buffer status information associated with line card queues used for receiving data from the switching fabric. Such data is used in a manner similar to the output buffer data from the switching fabric.
IPC 8 full level
G06F 13/40 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
H04L 49/3045 (2013.01 - EP US); H04L 49/90 (2013.01 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PT RO SE SI SK TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
US 2004100980 A1 20040527; US 7349416 B2 20080325; AT E400023 T1 20080715; AU 2003291743 A1 20040618; AU 2003291743 B2 20100805; CA 2505844 A1 20040610; CA 2505844 C 20100810; CN 100405344 C 20080723; CN 1717669 A 20060104; DE 60321952 D1 20080814; EP 1565828 A2 20050824; EP 1565828 B1 20080702; WO 2004049174 A2 20040610; WO 2004049174 A3 20041125
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 30441202 A 20021126; AT 03768637 T 20031105; AU 2003291743 A 20031105; CA 2505844 A 20031105; CN 200380104270 A 20031105; DE 60321952 T 20031105; EP 03768637 A 20031105; US 0335124 W 20031105